Liberal Arrogance is Authentic

In the latest issue of Time Magazine (from Real Clear Politics, remember I cancelled my subscription to Time), Joe Klein authors a piece entitled Ignorance as Authenticity, and  subtitled Why Do Some Idolize Ignoramuses Like O'Donnell.  Like a dog with a new chew toy, media elites just can't get enough of O'Donnell/Angle/Palin, or anything else that seems foreign to them, i.e., conservative women.  Just ask Meg Whitman.  Joe tries to explain to us that these "Tea Party know-nothings"are absolutely unqualified to join the Washington elite because they aren't really smart enough, and because they don't agree with him or Obama.

"There is something profoundly diseased about a society that idolizes its ignoramuses and disdains its experts," he writes.  "It is a society that no longer takes itself seriously."  Didn't our president just admonish us recently in a speech for not being serious about his transformational reform of government?  Mr. Klein goes on to say that we don't get Obama because his policies are "abstruse."  Abstruse is defined as difficult to understand.  In other words, it's not that we disagree with Obama's policies because they are an anathema to our values and ideology, it's the fact that we are simply too stupid to understand or comprehend them.  Further translation; the American people are too obtuse to grasp the wisdom of Obama.

Benchwarmers

What's scarier than the first two years of the Obama administration?  The next two years of the Obama administration.  Why?  Because for the first two years we were treated to the best and the brightest the Democrats could muster to help President Obama carry out his/their insidious plans and policies.   Now that a large number of his most key appointments and first string wonks have left the White House playroom, Obama now has to draw upon second and third choices for backfill.  This should make us all extremely nervous.  Then again, if his collection of valedictorians couldn't fulfill the promise of a progressive's dream, even with huge majorities in both houses of Congress, perhaps we can all sleep better knowing that a Republican majority in at least one chamber will thwart any further attempts at making us more European than Europe.

 


 

Obama's Animal House

Caught bits of President Obama's visit to Madison, Wisconsin on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.  You know it's gotten really bad for BHO when even Jon Stewart makes fun of you.  The president's speech to the crowded quad at the University of Wisconsin was angry, confused, accusatory and belittling.  And those were the parts directed at his supporters!  He can't seem to get beyond the car-in-the-ditch scenario, and with each passing attempt he adds another layer of stupidity and silliness.  The latest version has Republicans drinking Slurpees as he and the Democrats continue to operate a stalled vehicle which incidentally, remains in the ditch.  I thought the stimulus, the bailouts, the buyouts, Obamacare and quarterly extensions of unemployment benefits had already pulled the car from the ditch?  Why are we still in the ditch Mr. President?

Meanwhile, a number of top, key officials have vacated or will soon depart Obama's broken down jalopy of hope, leaving behind a back seat full of empty promises, discarded dreams, and other progressive detritus collected along the way of their two-year road trip.  Back at the frat house, media pundits are speculating on which brother or sister of Phi Delta Obama will step up to repair the damage.  The reality is that nobody the White House names to replace the freshman class of 2012 will do any better.  How can they?  They all drink from the same trash barrel of ideas and their biggest supplier of grain alcohol is their leader Barry.

I'm sure Dean Vernon Wormer would agree that oblivious, deceitful and arrogant is no way to go through life either, unless of course your subjects can be kept fat, drunk and stupid on liberal bromides like universal healthcare, transfer payments, cap and tax, etc.  Thankfully, main street Americans have seen through the hazing and are poised to put Phi Delta Obama on double secret probation beginning this November.  

The Truth About the '08 Financial Collapse

Obama's Keynesian Juggernaut

My takeaway from President Obama's much heralded (if you pay attention to CNBC) economic town hall meeting with a live audience on CNBC is this; The Obama administration wishes to raise taxes on individuals making over $250,000, tax capital gains at least an additional 5%, and capture additional taxes through financial regulation of Wall Street, because they are going to continue to spend massive amounts on new and existing government programs.  If the president's visit was intended to deflate a growing sense of unease or that his administration is anti-business, I thing Mr. Obama sorely missed the mark.  Once again, a golden opportunity to reposition himself as a defender of free market principles was squandered.

Why Christine O'Donnell Will Win

Washington power brokers and media elites from both sides of the aisle are dead wrong.  Not only can Christine O'Donnell win a U. S. Senate seat in Delaware, she will.  Why?  Because in today's charged atmosphere, fueled by tea party activists' enthusiasm and zeal to roll back, repeal, or otherwise dispense of anything and everything that Obama has stood for, the last thing even the voters of purple Delaware will do is to secure another vote for Barack Obama.  So, not only will Ms. O'Donnell beat Democrat Chris Coons,  I would venture to say that she would very likely beat President Obama if he was on the ballot this November.

Washington and the media just don't get it.  They are stuck in the double standards and non sequiturs of liberal dominated group think.  So, all the sudden Christine O'Donnell's past tax problems are an issue?  Ask Tim Geithner if his past indiscretions with the IRS were an obstacle to his cushy job at the U. S. Treasury Department.  Or for that matter, that almost $1,000,000 is owed by 41 people who work in the White House for President Obama.  Or another $9.3 million is due the IRS from those who work on Capitol Hill.  How about the fact that a total of $1 billion is owed by federal workers!  Peanuts in comparison to what is estimated to be $11,000 owed by Ms. O'Donnell.

My advice to Christine O'Donnell is to take care of your past mistakes as quickly as possible.  Don't let the media hang things on you that don't seem to stick to others.  Stay upbeat, positive, and eager to do the right things now.  Big guns are pointed at your direction.  The good news is that they are useless against our fervor.    
 

The Kenyan

No he didn't.  Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich better not have called President Barack Obama a Kenyan, because if he did...oh boy...well, he just better not have.  What?  That was basically the response yesterday morning from the Morning Joe crowd on MSNBC.  Charles Blow from the New York Times, called Newt's statement "outrageous" and "incomprehensible".  He also said it was "one the most inflammatory things I have ever heard."  Time magazine's Mark Halperin questioned why Newt "keeps being allowed to say these things."  What for God's sake did Newt say to warrant such scorn and contempt?  

"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?"  - Newt Gingrich

Wow!  What?  Honestly, does this statement sound outrageous, incomprehensible, or even close to being inflammatory?  Of course not.  That's because you are a sensible human being and not predisposed to believing everything you hear from conservatives is either tinged with racism or just plain awful.  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that Gingrich was "trying to appeal to the fringe of people who don't think the president was born in this country."  Perhaps.  Better yet, maybe Mr. Gingrich was just agreeing with an article in Forbes.com, called How Obama Thinks, written by Dinesh D'Souza.  Dinesh D'Souza is the president of King's College in New York City and is the author of an upcoming book called The Roots of Obama's Rage.


The article opens with this paragraph: "Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. TheWeekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad."  Yes, go on.  The author then goes on to explain that Obama's policies front a national and international agenda that is so "bizarre" it must be the result of Barack Obama channeling his deceased father Barack Obama Sr., an anti-colonial Luo tribesman who spoke out against European control of Africa.  "Anti-colonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America."

For my money, the article paints a pretty conclusive story on what makes Barack Obama tick, and why on earth he does the ridiculous and destructive things that he does.